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Introducing Artsy Fartsy Podcast

If you have spent any length of time with me, you know I love podcasts. If I was Oprah, podcasts would be on the list of My Favorite Things every year. If you also have spent time with me you know I love to talk. Put these two great loves together and add a splash of artist and designer, Taylor Barstow, and you have a podcast in the making!



I am super proud and excited to announce the launching of the first season of the Artsy Fartsy Podcast! In this pod, Taylor and I will dig through our art school toolbox and share with each other (and you) bits of literature, art history, and processes of art every other week. I hope you will join us art nerds on a plethora of tangents, diatribes and great art talk.

Our first episode will be release on July 14th, you can find our podcast wherever you listen to podcasts!



Feel like the name Artsy Fartsy is cheesy? Yeah, we do too. Growing up in the Midwest, this term has been used to describe each of us our entire lives, by family, teachers, and friends. This isn't to knock it! While we are both artists showing, selling and making contemporary art- the term as it applies to artists of "artsy fartsy" is often a way that folks not-of-the-art-world describe makers. Yes, I would prefer to be called an artist- no, I am not calling you out dad.... Well, maybe a little....

We love being "artsy fartsy" and we are ready and excited to have the opportunity to continue to contribute to the world in this way! Follow along with us as we dig into history, who writes it, and who will write it for contemporary makers today!

Listen here on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7KLBS9v1NW58ExWYMKDL3T

Follow us at @artsyfartsy.pod on Instagram and search Artsy Fartsy Podcast on Facebook!

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